September 14, 1912 



flORTICULTURE 



391 



BUY 



BOSTON 



FLOWERS 



N. F. McCarthy & co., 



112 Arch St.. 31 Otis St. 



BOSTON'S BEST 

 HOUSE 



Flower Market Reports 



^Continued from pa^e 3&q) 



There has been 

 PHILADELPHIA little change in 

 the prices of 

 American Beauty roses. Quality con- 

 tinues to improve, and the demand is 

 all that can be expected. Richmond 

 has made its appearance again and 

 will be quoted soon as one of our 

 regular staples. Perles have been un- 

 usually good sellers of late — conse- 

 quent, it is said, on the Jewish holi- 

 days which call for a showy flower in 

 a yellow rose. The late asters are 

 now in their glory and are one of the 

 leading features of the market. Gar- 

 denias have hardened up considerably 

 in price, consequent on their more 

 general use as a substitute for the 

 cattleya — which still remains very 

 scarce. The second week of the dah- 

 lia season finds the market well sup- 

 plied with the good early varieties, 

 such as Sylvia, Lyndhurst, Arabella, 

 Lemon Beauty and others. Gladioli 

 are still an important factor, and are 

 of excellent quality. Some of the 

 first cuts of the new carnation crop 

 are coming in and are very good for 

 so early in the season, although only 

 medium as to stem. New crop chrys- 

 anthemums have made their appear- 

 ance in limited quantities — Smith's 

 Advance and Golden Glow being the 

 principal varieties so far. Tritomas 

 are not so plentiful this fall as these 

 plants suffered from the severe winter. 

 The past week has 

 NEW YORK been a repetition of 

 many preceding ones, 

 with the difference that dahlias have 

 been coming in to assist in the glut 

 of asters. The cut of American 

 Beauty roses is improving, the de- 

 mand, too, being good with prices a 

 little better. Maryland, Taft. Hilling- 

 don. Ward and Richmond are in 

 plenty, but have suffered greatly from 

 the hot spell we are now having. Car- 

 nations are of no account, but Lilium 

 longiflorum and gladioli are as plenti- 

 ful as ever. Gardenias are very scarce 

 and orchids are in little demand. 



The market was very 

 ST. LOUIS dull the last week. 

 There was plenty of 

 stock and low prices prevailed on all. 

 Roses have been a regular glut and 

 the wholesalers have been obliged to 

 get rid of them at once at very cheap 

 prices. The same goes for asters, 

 which have been coming in quite 

 heavy of late from the eastern mar- 

 kets. There are also quite a lot of 

 carnations with short stems and good 

 flowers. During the last week some 



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SUPERIOR R J-ES. LILY OFTHEVALLEY, CARNATIONS. ORCHIDS 



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383-387 ELUCOTT ST. - 



>ri8-l:8 

 BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 1 00. To Dealers Only 

 MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longlflotum 



*' 5peci08uni 



Lily of the Valley 



aiadloll 



Asters 



Daises 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) - 



Cardenas 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings 



_ _ " " & 5preil (loo bunches) . 



of the Chicago growers have been 

 using our market for a dumping 

 ground for their surplus but the hot 

 weather caused them to come in very 

 bad condition and very little was got- 

 ten for them. Business is dull! 



Business during 

 WASHINGTON the past week has 



seen no improve- 

 ment over that of previous weeks for 

 some time past. There are still plenty 

 of asters and a large amount of these 

 have remained unsold. Roses are 

 coming in good but they have to be 

 Al in order to obtain a buyer. Carna- 

 tions are improving in quality. The 

 retail market as a whole has been 

 very draggy. With the weather con- 

 tinuing hot, conditions will remain as 

 they now are and it will take some 

 cold weather to bring relief. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Alva R. Jones, head of the Pennock- 

 Meehan forces at the Philadelphia 

 headquarters, has just returned from 

 a three weeks' vacation looking hale 

 and hearty. 



The House of Rice has had jn the 

 past ten days more visitors from out- 

 of-town than any year previous. Flor- 

 ists must be traveling more than ever 

 — hardly a day passes without one or 

 two visitors and they are coming from 

 every section of the country. Night 

 work was the rule last week on ac- 

 count of the rush for fall baskets. 



John Berger, of Berger Bros., thinks 

 Maine is all right for a vacation ex- 

 cept that the black flies are pretty 

 troublesome — although the natives 

 swear that that idea is all imaginary. 

 Remarkable coincidence that, about 

 the native idea. The Jersey natives 

 say the same thing — about the mos- 

 quitoes. And yet both natives go to 

 church and praise the Lord. Why 

 don't they also fall upon the aborig- 

 ines with fire and sword? 



Visitors: Mr. Shone of the J. M. 

 Gasser Co., Cleveland, Ohio; Messrs. 

 Jones and Barberer of the Jones & 

 Russell Co., Cleveland, Ohio; S. B. 

 Dicks, representing Cooper, Taber & 



First Half of Week 



beginning Sept. I 



1912 



35 -oo 

 2.00 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 



.50 



.10 



•50 



1. 00 

 15.00 



.50 



6.00 



to 100.00 



to 5.00 



to 2.00 



to 3.00 



to 2.00 



to 1. 00 



to 1. 00 



to 2.00 



to 20.00 



to .7S 



8. 00 



35 -oo 

 12.00 



Co., London, England; M. C. Ebel, of 

 the Aphine Mfg. Co., Madison, N. J.; 

 Chas. Loechner, of New York City; 

 W. J. Vesey, Fort Wayne, Ind.; James 

 B. Kidd. New York City; Mr. and Mrs. 

 John Walker and Miss Sweeney, 

 Youngstown, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. John 

 Epstein, San Francisco, Cal.; William 

 Marche, Washington, D. C; A. J. 

 Reichert, Buffalo, N. Y. 



THE Florists' Supply 

 House of America 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



1129 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Florists' Refrigerators 



Write us for catalogue and Prices, stating size you 

 require, and for what kind of cut ffowers you wish 

 to use the refrigerator; also slate whether you 

 want it for display or only for storage. 



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353 Lake Street Kendallville, Inri. 



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 Roping;, Wild Simlax, etc. 



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